An Anti-Sadducee Polemic in the Palestinian Targum Tradition
1970; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 63; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0017816000025475
ISSN1475-4517
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Literary Studies
ResumoThe literature of the rabbis in its many volumes stands before the student of the rabbinic period as a resource of enlightenment and a source of frustration. A vast treasure of haggadic materials which would be invaluable to the historian of the period is too often rendered inaccessible by difficulties in dating and localizing traditions. Even when traditions are associated with particular rabbis, multiple attributions and major variants engender extreme caution if not despair in the literary critic and historian. When traditions are unattributed in a literature which has developed over centuries as is the case with the Targums, the problems are magnified.
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